21 JULY 1906, Page 3

We note with great satisfaction the progress of the Hamp-

stead Garden Suburb Trust. (The address of the Company is 32 and 34 Theobalds Road, W.C.) A most promising beginning has been made in the provision of capital, and we sincerely hope that the balance will scam be subscribed. But great as will be the benefit of the actual

work accomplished at Hampstead, we attach even more importance to the example. If the Trust can show– -as we believe it will—that it is "good business" not to defile the land with hideous rows of mean brick and slate houses, but to provide seemly cottages, garden embowered, on winding roads and flanked with open spaces, it will have conferred a boon of incalculable value upon the country. Such an example is bound to be imitated by the speculative builder.